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This Thanksgiving, be grateful you can take home the entire PEANUTS gang in the timeless classic A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Based on the television special celebrating its 35th Anniversary, Charlie Brown and his friends are back in this loveable story as they search to find out what puts the “thanks” in Thanksgiving. Let your little ones add to the story with stickers and paper dolls to re-create each scene.

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This Thanksgiving, be grateful you can take home the entire PEANUTS gang in the timeless classic A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Based on the television special celebrating its 35th Anniversary, Charlie Brown and his friends are back in this loveable story as they search to find out what puts the “thanks” in Thanksgiving. Let your little ones add to the story with stickers and paper dolls to re-create each scene.

Charlie Brown is in a dilemma when Peppermint Pattie invites herself and several friends to his house for Thanksgiving dinner.

Editorial Reviews

Children's Literature
- Chelsea Nichole Peyton

It is time to put on those Thanksgiving pants! You know the ones that give a little, allowing a little extra room for those scrumptious dishes we wait for all year! In this traditionally soft childlike story of wonder that many of us love so much, Schulz includes the usual Peanuts gang. This picture book offers a lesson in what it means to be thankful and the importance of giving. The book starts off with a conversation between Charlie Brown and Lucy; as she yanks the football away just before he kicks it, she says, “Isn’t it peculiar, Charlie Brown, how some traditions just slowly fade away?” It is a great start because Charlie soon faces the challenge of making Thanksgiving dinner. With the help of Snoopy and a few others, he makes a sweet treat and otherwise non-traditional holiday meal. This sets his friends all awry; but soon they find out what it means to be grateful and learn that sometimes although tradition changes, it can still hold an element of warmth and comfort. Charlie Brown stories are wonderful for the holidays. Intended for children of all ages, this book combines a holiday celebration with a group of kids America readers love. The soothing and familiar illustrations depict exactly what one would imagine in reading it. The scenery has a watercolor effect, and each detailed and well organized illustration expresses much more than the words on the page. Readers will notice immediately within the background images is the shadowing. This almost makes the scenes more life-like. Schulz has captured each character’s personality while challenging the reader to consider what Thanksgiving is all about. A must-read for all turkey lovers! Reviewer: Chelsea Nichole Peyton; Ages 7 to 9.

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Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 -2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dena and Carl Schulz. His nickname "Sparky" was given by his uncle, after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip. He attended St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades. As a result, he was the youngest in his class when he attended St. Paul Central High years later, which may have been the reason why he was so shy and isolated as a young teenager. After his mother died in February, 1943, he was drafted into the army and sent to Camp Campbell in Kentucky. He was then shipped to Europe two years later to fight in World War II. After leaving the United States Army in 1945, he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction Inc., which he attended before he was drafted. First published by Robert Ripley in his Ripley's Believe It or Not!, then in a series of chronicles, The Saturday Evening Post, his first regular comic strip, Li'l Folks was published in 1947 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (It was in this strip that Charlie Brown first appeared, as well as a dog that looked much like Snoopy). In 1950 he approached the United Features Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. This strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957-1959), but abandoned that strip due to the demands of the success of Peanuts.

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Anonymous

Posted October 9, 2007

Object on internet is larger than real life

The book is a good narrative of the beloved television special, 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' however, if you purchased this thinking it would be a charming picture book - think again. There is only a picture every 3 pages or so, and the size is only about 3 1/4 inches. This book may be suitable for a kid 7-10 who may want a tiny little book that will fit in their pocket, but is not generally suitable for a personal library or public library, for that matter.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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Anonymous

Posted January 9, 2010

Helps young children really get into the story.

My grandchildren ages 3 and 5 thoroughly enjoyed this book, especially decorating the pages with the stickers. This story was on TV the night they worked on this and the 3 year enjoyed watching the story afterward.
Would really like more of these books with stickers.

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Anonymous

Posted November 16, 2009

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Terribly disappointed! Pay attention to the size of book. Very misleading by picture!

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